“This is absolutely related to Twitter not paying their Google Cloud bills”

by thehodgeon 7/1/2023, 7:56:58 PM with 5 comments
  • by version_fiveon 7/1/2023, 8:17:12 PM

    Edit - on the front page, I didn't see it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552324

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    Context is that twitter has imposed rate limits (view max 600 tweets per day for normal users, more for paid, less for new accounts).

    They cited scraping as being the reason and said it was degrading their performance, but there are contentions that it's because they aren't paying their cloud bills.

    I'd like to see some concrete verification of this, it would be really bad for Musk's credibility if true.

  • by TigeriusKirkon 7/1/2023, 11:04:17 PM

    "June 21 (Reuters) - Twitter has resumed paying Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud for its services, according to a person familiar with the matter"

    https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-resumes-paying-go...

  • by publius_0xf3on 7/1/2023, 7:59:07 PM

    Thanks for linking to an explanation of why the site is down on the site that is down.

  • by kkosteon 7/4/2023, 7:09:24 AM

    Honestly... A 600 tweet limit is not a bad idea if you're already limiting viewing tweets to people who has an account. Taking into account that people without an account don't add anything if value to the platform other than traffic costs. However this will limit the amount of potential new users on the platform - but considering the size of twitter I don't think it is an issue.

    Now next on the agenda is identifying all the bots that circle jerks each other and spreads fake news.

  • by yayron 7/2/2023, 2:45:30 PM

    rate limiting twitter app usage to a point where regular users are not using the app anymore should be directly cutting advertising revenue